Luke

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1. 1The Annunciation and Conception, first of the Precursor: 26. and six months after, of Christ also himself. 39. The Visitation of our Lady, where both the mothers do prophesy. 57. The Nativity and Circumcision of the Precursor, where his father doth prophesy. 80. The Precursor is from a child an Eremite.
2. 2The Nativity of Christ, 8. and manifestation thereof to the Shepherds by an Angel, and by them to others. 21. His Circumcision. 22. His Presentation, together with Simeon's (as also Anne's) attestation and prophesying of his Passion, of the Jews' reprobation, and of the Gentiles' illumination. 41. His annual ascending to Jerusalem with his parents, to whom he was subject, 42. and his fulness of wisdom shewed among the Doctors at twelve of his age.
3. 3John, to prepare all to Christ (as Isaias had prophesied of him) baptizeth them to penance, 7. insinuating their reprobation, and the Gentiles' vocation. 10. teaching also and exhorting each sort to do their duty. 15. That himself is not Christ, he sheweth by the difference of their two Baptisms: 17. and saith that Christ will also judge his baptized. 19. John's imprisonment, 21. Christ being himself also baptized of John, hath testimony from Heaven, 23. as he whose Generation reduceth us again to God.
4. 4Christ going into the Desert to prepare himself before his manifestation, overcometh the temptations of the Devil. 14. then beginning gloriously in Galilee, 16. he sheweth to them of Nazareth his commission out of Isaias the Prophet, 23. insinuating by occasion the Jews his countrymen's reprobation. 31. In Capharnaum his doctrine is admired, 33. specially on his miracle in the Synagogue. 38. from which going to Peter's house, he sheweth there much more power. 42. Then retiring into the wilderness, he preacheth afterward to the other cities of Galilee.
5. 5Having taught the People out of Peter's ship, 4. he sheweth in a miraculous taking of fishes how he will make him the fisher of men. 12. He cureth a leper by touching him, and sendeth him to the Priest in witness that he is not against Moyses. 15. The People flocking unto him, he retireth into the wilderness. 17. To the Pharisees in a solemn assembly he proveth by a miracle his power to remit sins in earth. 27. He defendeth his eating with sinners, as being the Physician of souls. 33. and his not prescribing as yet of any fasts to his Disciples.
6. 6For reproving by Scripture and miracle (as also by reason) the Pharisees' blindness about the observation of the Sabbath, 11. they seek his death. 12. Having in the mountain prayed all night, he chooseth twelve Apostles, 17. and after many miracles upon the people diseased, 20. he maketh a sermon to his Disciples before the people: proposing blessings to such as will suffer for him, 24. and woe to such as will not. 27. Yet withal exhorting to do good even to our enemies also, 39. and that the Masters must first mend themselves, 46. finally to do good works, because only faith will not suffice.
7. 7He testifieth, the faith of the Centurion who was a Gentile, to be greater than he found among all the Jews, and cureth his servant absent, 11. the widow's son he raiseth and restoreth to her, 16. is renowned thereupon. 18. To John's messengers he answereth with miracles, leaving to John to preach thereby unto them that he is Christ, 24. and afterward he declareth how worthy credit was John's testimony. 29. inveighing against the Pharisees, 31. who with neither of these manners of living could be won, 36. shewing also unto them by occasion of Marie Magdalen, how he is a friend to sinners, not to maintain them in sin, but to forgive them their sins upon their faith and penance.
8. 8Going over all Galilee with his train, 4. he preacheth to the Jews in parables because of their reprobation, 9. but to his Disciples manifestly; because he will not for the Jews' incredulity have his coming frustrate: 19. signifying also that we are his kin (though we be Gentiles) and not his carnal brethren the Jews. 22. To whom also (signified by the Gerasens) after the tempest in his sleep (that is, in his death) & calm in his resurrection, he cometh: but they preferring their temporals before his presence, he leaveth them again, 41. Likewise coming to cure the Jews (who were born when the Gentiles sickened about Abraham's time) he is presented with the faith of the Gentiles, and then the Jews die, but them also in the end he will restore.
9. 9His Twelve also now preaching every where and working miracles. 6. Herod and all do wonder much. 10. after which, he taketh them and goeth into the wilderness where he cureth and teacheth, feeding 5000. with five loaves. 18. Peter confessing him to be Christ, 21. he in the other side foretelleth his Passion, and that all must after a time of persecution follow him therein. 27. whereunto to encourage us the more, 27. he giveth in his Transfiguration a sight of the glory, which is the reward of suffering. 37. The next day he casteth out a Devil which his Disciples could not. 43. whom amid their wonders he forewarneth again of his scandalous Passion, 49. And to cure their ambition, he telleth them, that the most humble he esteemeth most: 49. bidding them also not to prohibit any that is not against them. 51. Yea and toward such as be against them Schismatically, to shew mildness for all that. 57. Of following him, three examples.
10. 10He sendeth yet 72. more to preach to the seven, with power also of miracles. 13. crying woe to the cities impenitent. 17. at their return he agniseth the great power he gave them, but yet teacheth them not to be proud thereof, 21. and praiseth God for his grace, 23. his Church also for her happy state. 25. To one of the Scribes he sheweth, that the love of God and his neighbour will bring him to life everlasting. 29. teaching him by the parable of the Samaritan, to take every one for his neighbour that needeth his charity. 38. To Martha he sheweth that Marie's Contemplative life is the better.
11. 11He teacheth a form of prayer, 5. and exhorteth to pray instantly, 11. assuring that 13. God will give us good things. 14. The Jews blaspheming his casting out of Devils, and asking for a miracle from Heaven, 17. he defendeth his doing: 22. foretelling also the Devils' expulsion by him out of the world (that is, the vocation of the Gentiles) 24. and his reentry into their soul, 27. with their reprobation though he be of their flesh, 29. and also their final most worthy damnation, 37. Again, the Pharisees and Scribes he crieth woe, as authors of the said reprobation now at hand.
12. 12He prepareth his Disciples against persecutions to come upon them at their publishing of his Doctrine. 13. with dividing the brethren's inheritance he will not meddle, but exhorteth them against avarice, 22. and his Disciples (by this occasion) against solicitude so much as of necessaries, 32. yea counseling them to give all in alms. 35. and to be ready at a knock. 41. namely admonishing Peter and other Prelates to see to their charge: 49. and all, not to look but for persecution. 54. The Jews he reprehendeth for that they will not see this time of grace, 58. whereas it is so horrible to die without reconciliation.
13. 13He threateneth the Jews to be soon forsaken unless they do penance, 10. and confoundeth them for maligning him for his miraculous good-doing on the Sabbaths. 18. but his Kingdom (the Church) as contemptible as it seemeth to them now in the beginning, shall spread over all the world, 20. and convert all, 23. and what an heart-sore it shall be to them at the last day to see themselves excluded from the glory of this Kingdom, and the Gentiles admitted in their place. 31. He foretelleth that it is not Galilee that he feareth, but that obstinate & reprobate Jerusalem will needs murder him, as also his messengers afore and after him.
14. 14By occasion of dining with a Pharisee, 2. after that he hath again confounded them for maligning him for his miraculous good-doing on the Sabbath, 7. he teacheth them humility, seeing their ambition, 12. and in their work as to seek retribution not of men in this world, but of God in the world to come: 16. foretelling also that the Jews for their worldly excuses shall not taste of the Supper, but the Gentiles in their place. 25. Yea that so far must men be from all worldliness, that they must earnestly bethink them before they enter into his Church, and be ready to forgo all 34. specially considering they must be the salt of others also.
15. 15By occasion of the Pharisees murmuring at him for receiving penitent sinners, he sheweth what joy shall be in Heaven for the conversion of one sinner, 11. and for the younger son, which is the Gentiles: 15. the elder (to wit the Jews) in the mean time disdaining thereat, and refusing to come into his Church.
16. 16He teacheth the rich to procure Heaven with their riches. 14. And being therefore derided of the covetous Pharisees (who love temporal riches) promised in the letter of the Law, he sheweth that now is come the preaching of the Kingdom of God, humbling the Law for all that in no jot shall be frustrate. 19. foretelling them also, that the covetous Jews shall be denied of their father Abraham, when poor Lazarus (the penitent Gentile) shall rest in his bosom.
17. 17So damnable it is to be author of a Schism, 3. that we must rather forgive be it never so often. 5. We must be fervent in faith, and humble withal, knowing that we are bound to God, and not he to us. 11. The nine Jews are ungrateful after that he had cured their leprosy: but the one Samaritan ( the one Catholic Church of the Gentiles ) far otherwise. 20. The Pharisees asking, when cometh this Kingdom of God ( of which approaching they had now heard so much ) he teacheth that God must reign within us. 22. and warneth us after his Passion never to go out of his Catholic Church, for any new fears coming of Christ those Heretics shall pretend, but only to expect his second coming in glory, 31. preparing ourselves unto it, because it shall come upon many unprovided, 31. specially through the persecution of Antichrist, a little before it.
18. 18The Church is taught to commit the revenge of her persecutions to God, and to pray incessantly, for so no doubt (though in the persecution of Antichrist few will so think) will at length come. 9. We must also pray with humility, because we know not with the Pharisee if we be just, but we know with the Publican that we be sinners. 15. He will have children to be brought to him, and all to be as children. 18. What is to be done to get life everlasting. 22. What also to get perfection, 28. and what reward they shall have that leave all, yea or any part, for his sake, 31. He foretelleth of his Passion most particularly, 35. And entering into Jericho, cureth one blind man.
19. 19In Jericho he lodgeth in the house of Zacchaeus a Publican, and against the murmuring Jews openeth the reasons of his so doing. 11. He sheweth, that the last day should not be yet, 15. and what then in the judgement he will do both to us of his Church as well good as bad, 27. and also to the reprobate Jews. 39. Being now come to the place of his Passion, he entereth (weeping and foretelling the destruction of blind Jerusalem): with triumph as their Christ. 45. He sheweth his zeal for the house of God, and teacheth therein every day. 47. The rulers would destroy him, but for fear of the people.
20. 20To the Jews he avoucheth his power by the witness of John who was a man sent of God. 9. and foretelleth in a parable their reprobation most worthy with the vocation of the Gentiles in their place: 17. and consequently their irreparable damnation that shall ensue thereof. 20. He defeateth their snare about paying tribute to Caesar: 27. he answereth also the invention of the Sadducees against the Resurrection: 40. And so having put them all to silence, 41. he turneth and poseth them, because they imagined that Christ should be no more but a man: 45. bidding all to beware of the Scribes (authors of the Jews' schism from him) being ambitious & hypocrites.
21. 21He commendeth the poor widow for her two mites. 5. Having said that the Temple shall be quite destroyed, 7. he foretelleth first many things that shall go before, 20. then a sign also when it is near, after which all shall come the desolation itself in most horrible manner, without hope of restitution, until all Nations of the Gentiles be gathered into his Church in the very end of the world. 25. And then what signs shall come of the last day, terrible to the wicked, 28. but comfortable to us of his Church, 34. so that we be always watchful.
22. 22Judas doth sell him to the Jews. 7. After the old Paschal, 19. he giveth to his Disciples the bread of life in a mystical Sacrifice of his body and blood, for an everlasting commemoration of his Passion. 21. He covertly admonisheth the traitor. 24. Against their ambitious contentions he sheweth them that the majesty of any among them in this world is for their service, as his own also was: 28. & how he will exalt them all in the next life to come: 31. foretelling Peter the singular privilege of his faith never failing, 33. and his three negations: 35. and how they shall all now be put to their shifts. 39. And that night, after his prayer with sweating of blood, 42. he is taken of the Jews anon, Judas being their Captain: yet shewing them both by miracle and word, that they could do nothing unto him but by his own permission. 54. Then in the chief Priests' house he is thrice denied of Peter, 63. shamefully abused of his keepers, 66. and in the morning impiously condemned of their Council, for confessing himself to be the Son of God.
23. 23The Jews accuse him to Pilate the Gentile. 3. who seeking earnestly to deliver him, specially after that Herod sent him back, 17. they not only prefer the murderer Barabbas, but also cry, CRUCIFIGE. 26. In the way to Calvary he foretelleth the women that lamented upon him, the horrible destruction of their Jerusalem. 32. Upon the cross he is between two thieves, 35. scorned of the Jews, 36. of the soldiers, 39. and of one of the thieves, 40. but even there confessed of the other the thief, 44. and after his death (because of the great miracles concurring) also of the Centurion, 48. yea and of the whole multitude. 50. And finally he is buried honourably.
24. 24Devout women not finding his body in the Sepulchre, 4. Angels tell them that he is risen according to his own prediction. 9. yet the Apostles will not believe it. 12. But neither Peter findeth his body there. 13. He walketh with two Disciples declaring all this unto them out of the Scriptures, and is known of them by breaking of bread. 36. The same day he appeareth to the Apostles being together, in sight of them, and eateth with them, 44. finally teaching them out of the Scriptures not only of his Passion and Resurrection, 47. but also of his Catholic Church, 49. he promiseth the Holy Ghost to confirm them, 50. and so ascendeth into Heaven.